File permissions

[Martin Geisler]

Pat Josh <tennisanyday at gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
> I am using mercurial version 1.0.1
>
> I cloned a copy of repository from my team gate and I changed file
> permission for one file in my local workspace. Now 'hg status' doesn't show
> this file as modified. The only change to this file is the permission. Any
> idea why this happens? How can I commit only the file permission change to
> the repository?

Mercurial is only tracking the execute bit -- you cannot commit changes
to the read/write bits.

-- 
Martin Geisler

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